Tehran: A senior Iranian official said that unloading fuel from the core of the Bushehr nuclear reactor, located in southern Iran, has nothing to do with Stuxnet,a cyber attack reportedly carried out by western powers on Iran’s nuclear programme , the local ISNA news agency reported on Monday.
Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Saturday the fuel placed inside the reactor of the country’s first nuclear power plant would be temporarily removed to run a number of tests.
“The measure is in line with final check of the reactor and it was carried out following an agreement between Iranian and Russian experts,” Iranian ambassador to Russia, Reza Sajjadi, told ISNA.
“Bushehr nuclear plant is the first one in an Islamic country and that Zionist regime and western states have been united to prevent its operation,” said Sajjadi.
He said Russians have been under pressures over past years to leave the project unfinished, according to the report.
He also added due to application of German-built infrastructures and mixture of Russian-German technology in the facility, safety standards of the Iranian installations should be promoted further.
The Bushehr nuclear plant has been beset by decades of delay. Its construction was started in the 1970s by a German company but was shelved shortly after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 as the German side pulled out of the deal.
Russia signed an agreement worth one billion U.S. dollars with Iran in 1995 to take over the project. Its completion, initially scheduled in 1999, was postponed several times by mounting technological and financial challenges and interruptions under pressures from the United States.
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